[mythtv-users] 'Failed to Delete File' from within Video Library
Michael T. Dean
mtdean at thirdcontact.com
Thu May 30 02:36:42 UTC 2013
On 05/29/2013 10:12 PM, Jeremy Jones wrote:
> I recently started downloading a few video podcasts (Everything
> perfectly legal). The video file is placed in a folder in my video
> library so that I can watch them from myth. When I finish watching
> one, I would like to be able to delete it. When I tried by pressing
> 'd' I first get a prompt, "Are you sure you sure you want to
> delete:..." Upon selecting 'OK' I get a second message informing me,
> "Failed to delete file".
>
> I have checked the permissions and I don't see a problem. I tried
> changing the parent folder's owner to 'mythtv' as well as all the
> files. I can delete the file from within thunar using the same user
> that runs mythfrontend.
It's mythbackend that does the deleting when you use Storage Groups.
Mike
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